{"id":16390,"date":"2012-01-09T23:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=16390"},"modified":"2012-01-09T23:17:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:17:53","slug":"courthouse-romantics-are-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=16390","title":{"rendered":"Courthouse Romantics are Among Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just last week I reviewed the book Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures<\/a> in the article A Thorough Vetting of Courthouse Research<\/a>. Thus, I found the timing on the follow article, I saw this week, on courthouse research most interesting:<\/p>\n

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Genealogy Today: My romance with courthouses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Betty Lou Malesky<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u00a0love courthouses, the older the better. I love walking up the stone steps in the shallows worn by thousands of footsteps before mine. I love opening the 10-foot-high doors for the first glimpse into the dark, cool interior with marble floors and huge marble columns.<\/p>\n

I love entering into the sanctuary of lawyers, judges and clerks of long ago, their footsteps echoing along with mine as I walk across the wide central lobby. I even love the security guards at the door these days, as I know they are protecting the documents I so want to find. If you’ve never been to an ancestor’s courthouse, I urge you to take the plunge. For now, just follow me.<\/p>\n

I head for the clerk’s office on a mission to find another ancestor or two, maybe more, one never knows. As I enter the office, the clerk looks up warily, another disruption in her busy day.<\/p>\n

I tell her I am doing research in the early records from 1790 to 1880. Relieved, she points to a door behind the counter, and says, “All the books are in there.” Off I go, to my favorite inner sanctuary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just last week I reviewed the book Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures in the article A Thorough Vetting of Courthouse Research. Thus, I found the timing on the follow article, I saw this week, on Continue reading Courthouse Romantics are Among Us!<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courthouse-records","category-genealogy-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16391,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions\/16391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}